Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > "Richard C. Cobbe" wrote: > >Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > > > >> (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). > >> > >> I want to define a function key to

Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). > > I want to define a function key to run a macro. > > I can do it within a session: > > ESC x global-set-key RET eif-indent-buffer RET > > but I can't get it to work in the initialisation file ~/

Re: Font point sizes and X resolutions?

2001-03-22 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > On Wed Mar 21 22:13:32 2001 Richard C. Cobbe wrote... > > > >Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > > > >[reformatted for 80 cols] > > > >> How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are

Re: Font point sizes and X resolutions?

2001-03-21 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: [reformatted for 80 cols] > How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are displayed in the proper > (eg 1/72 inch per point) size? Can't do 72dpi, but you can do 75dpi, which is close enough. Take a look at your font path (in /etc/X11/XF86Co

Re: Does anyone?

2001-03-21 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Lee Baldwin did write: > Does anyone know why the files are .iso when you download them?? The .iso extension refers to ISO 9660, the international standard for the filesystem on a CD-ROM. This file contains such a filesystem; it's (more or less) what you would get if

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Jan Ulrich Hasecke did write: > Hallo Keith! > > > I have no idea where to even look for a solution. Is it in dvips, > > latex, lprng, magicfilters, printcap? > > Try "texconfig" as root and set the offset in the dvips section. This will fix the problem, yes. For he

Re: Access & Permissions

2001-03-20 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, March 20, Matthew Sackman did write: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:04:27PM -0500, C Mead wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to give access to my /www/ dirs to regular users for apache. Can > > someone please take me through the steps of changing the permissions > > and groups recursivel

How to set up an ODBC manager?

2001-03-19 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm trying to play around with writing a small ODBC client program, just to learn how the technology works. Rather unfortunately, I'm highly unclear on how to set up all of the pieces involved. I've installed the following packages on my Potato system: odbc-postgresql postgresql

Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

2001-03-19 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on , March 19, Anthony Fox did write: > I recompiled bash from a source .deb. Last night, while /bin/bash was > segfaulting, I ran the newly compiled bash and it worked just fine. > The differences in sizes of the binaries is large. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l bash-2.04/bash > -rwxr-xr-x

Re: Applying colors to Netscape

2001-03-17 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 17, William Leese did write: > I think I found this mentioned somewhere, something to do with editing your > .Xresources file. Does anyone know more of this? Well, if you're looking for X resource settings which affect Netscape, look for a file named Netscape.ad. On my po

Re: Gnus/emacs to Gnus/xemacs

2001-03-17 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 17, mike polniak did write: > I am using Gnus5.8.8 and emacs 20.7 and would like to try Gnus with > xemacs. If i just apt-get install xemacs from stable will it work with my > current version of Gnus (unstable). Are there any problems using the same > version of Gnus with em

Re: .startx & ximian-gnome

2001-03-15 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, March 15, Marcelo Chiapparini did write: > I run potato 2.2r2 plus ximian gnome. I have just found that the file > /~.xsession is not read when a X session starts. Where should I put the > information present in the file .xsession in this case? Are you using gdm? If so, try ch